Just want to share this info with you
check this website www.hempcrete.ca
this home has toxic free walls. The walls are exterior walls, act as insulation, need no vaporbarrier, no drywall.
Appearantly there is already another home build in the US – of course with the usual bureaucratic issues.
They are making inroads in Europe
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It would be nice if they explained what it was.
new building materials
check on the net under hempcrete and read the various articles from the UK and the US
Did you see the slidepresentation of the house they build on Bowen Island
Los Angeles general contractors
I too saw many posts and pictures in wikipedia on this web site.
Hempcrete is a mixture of hemp hurds and lime used as a material for construction and insulation.
selfish spam link removed
This is one example link i have posted here.
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Yeah, if your place catches fire the fire dept comes and throws more fuel on the blaze, then stands there breathing in the smoke.
I see a few problems with acceptance of this at the moment:
1. Unless they build and demonstrate a shearwall like structure or method with this, it's not going to be allowed where it would do the most good.
2. Unless it can be grown somewhere near hear (like quarried gravel), it has to be transported thousands of miles. Even the lime binder looks like it has to be transported from England. This seriously cuts back on the "greeness" of it.
3. "It gets stronger/absorbs CO2 over time." We need quantification. If this stuff can absorb tons of CO2 over its life... then isn't your foundation supporting more weight as it ages? That seems like an important variable! If it gets stronger over time, I'd like to have a graph of that the I can give my engineer. Maybe the house needs a shearwall the day it's built, but solidifies enough after 30 days it can be removed. Or diagonal braces - whatever.
4. Why couldn't Douglas Fir chips be used, or any other kind of wood chip. One of the videos stated that hemp was much better than other sources... well how much better? DF is better than Southern Pine, but not so much better that they ignore the local resources.
SIP green building material
Structered insulated panels(SIPs) are a new generation composite building material for eco friendlyconnstruction. SIP panels benefit from the unique characteristics of composites the simple sandwich panel forms a strong insulated panel for building walls, roofs and floors for sip homes or commercial buildings.
Roderick
Are you associated with the sip supply industry?
I mention it because your post looks alot like this-a blurb from an internet supplier............
R-Control Structural Insulated Panels - What are Sips
R-Control SIPs or Structural Insulated Panels are a 21st century composite material that provides the benefits of insulation and structural performance in a single building product. R-Control SIPs consist of Foam-Control® EPS (expanded polystyrene) insulation laminated with structural adhesives to oriented strand board structural sheathing. R-control sips benefit from the unique characteristics of composites – the simple sandwich panel forms an amazingly strong insulated panel for building walls, roofs and floors for sip homes or commercial buildings.
If so, how do you back up the green part?
Seems the production of polystyrene receives some press that isn't so green.
thanks.
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I'm really trying to figure out what these spam posts are about. That post obviously says nothing. It's link was to a wiki page.
I think what we are see is trial run passes by natural language bots to see if they will pass muster.
Paul
When someone from an industry comes in here it would be nice to draw from their knowledge.
If just a spam attempt-too bad there's no virtual dunk tank where we could work on our pitching.
Why should anyone believe you when you don't know your tail end from a hole in the ground. SIPs are not in any way "new" -- they've been around for 40 years at least. And it's reasonable to question how "eco-friendly" they are, due to the chemicals used in construction.